“The exhibition identifies conflict as the culprit behind the most harrowing calamities of our time, including mass destruction, dispossession, and displacement. War has long cast a dark shadow over human history, but art has increasingly helped reveal the abuses of power, as well as the alarming fragility of our collective existence.”

Exhibition: “What of the eternal harm lurking all around?” group exhibition (featuring artists Noor Abed, Haig Aivazian, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Mona Hatoum, Lamia Joreige, Hussein Nassereddine, and Raeda Saadeh, in dialogue with works from the collection by artists Jost Amman, Otto Dix, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Antonio Tempesta, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Utagawa Yoshiiku, and Ichieisai Yoshitsuya), McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON, August 14, 2025 – October 31, 2025.

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Image: Darren Rigo and McMaster Museum of Art